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Celebrity Ghosts As Famous In Death As They Were In Life
Marilyn Monroe was found dead of an overdose on August 5, 1962, at her Los Angeles home. Rumor has it that she still haunts the Brentwood home where her body was found, but she also supposedly makes the occasional ghostly appearance at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in her favorite Cabana Room Suite.
Monroe is said to haunt the full-length mirror in the hotel's lobby and has appeared as a pink mist near her crypt in Westwood.
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Lennon's reportedly been in communication with a lot of famous folks, including Paul McCartney, who claimed in a Rolling Stone interview to have asked the spirit for songwriting advice, and Oasis member Liam Gallagher.
Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980, outside of the Dakota, his New York apartment building. Apparently, this is the place that Lennon's ghost returns to the most, and it was already considered haunted by several ghosts. The Dakota was used as the residence in Rosemary's Baby.
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The King of Rock 'n' Roll met his untimely end when he died of a heart attack on August 16, 1977. Presley was found in the bathroom of his home in Graceland, TN, and reportedly still haunts the property. But Elvis gets around; he's also been spotted at the Las Vegas Hilton, where he gave his final big performance, at other locations in that hotel, and at the old RCA recording studios.
Workers at the former music recording studio (which is now a TV studio) have reported instances where someone brings up Elvis in conversation and unexplained noises appear on the sound systems and the lights begin to flicker. Spooky stuff!
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Winehouse tragically died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27, becoming a member of the infamous 27 Club, but it seems she hasn't quite left this plane yet.
Pete Doherty, a close friend of Winehouse's and former member of The Libertines, was convinced that Winehouse was haunting his flat - so much so that he fled to Paris to get away from her ghostly presence.
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Another member of the 27 Club and former lead singer of The Doors, died in a bathtub in Paris on July 3, 1971, from heart failure, in what is widely believed to have been an overdose. But it seems that his ghost traveled all the way from Paris to Los Angeles where he's been seen in the bathroom of Mexico Restaurant Y Barra, which was built where The Doors's preferred recording studio once was.
Unfortunately for ghost hunters, the restaurant closed in 2010. Morrison's ghost was also apparently photographed near his grave in Paris, France, in 1997.
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The former Playboy Playmate actually told FHM that she hooked up with a ghost once, so maybe she found her former paranormal paramour once she became a ghost herself.
Smith died of an overdose in room 607 of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Florida in 2007 and still haunts its halls, at least according to a guest named Stephanie Pont who claims to have seen Smith's spirit roaming around the hotel.
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Renowned escape artist Harry Houdini could not escape death's clutches, and now he is apparently shackled to this mortal coil. He died from a ruptured appendix on October 31, 1926 - what a day to go out!
Houdini's ghost is rumored to haunt the Hollywood mansion where he was thought to have lived or at least visited during his life, as many in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood claim to have seen a spectral man matching his appearance. However, it now seems unlikely that Houdini had any association with the mansion. The haunting remains a mystery.
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Lucille Ball's ghost likes to party - you could even say she likes to have a ball! The I Love Lucy star died at age 77 from a ruptured aorta following open-heart surgery. But nothing keeps a good ghost down.
The owners of Ball's house in Beverly Hills have complained of sounds coming from the attic, such as voices that sound as if they're talking over loud music. Seems as if Lucy has some ghost buddies over that she's having a blast with up there. They've also mentioned supernatural happenings like furniture moving about of its own accord and household items disappearing and reappearing in different places.
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The phrase "blonde bombshell" was coined to describe Jean Harlow - this girl originated one of the hottest descriptors in the business! But another kind of bombshell broke when Harlow suddenly died of kidney failure on June 7, 1937. However, it appears that Harlow has some unfinished business to attend to with her first husband Paul Bern, an MGM studio executive, with whom she had a tumultuous relationship.
Bern later killed himself in their home while Harlow was staying at her mother's, but Harlow spirit has apparently stuck around. A family who lived in their home later on described hearing racking sobs, smelling mysterious perfume, and hearing a woman's voice whispering, "Please help me."
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Joan Crawford's daughter has claimed that she and her mother lived in a house that was already haunted. So, when Crawford died of a heart attack on May 10, 1977, it seems as though she joined the ghost party that was already raging.
Apparently, Joan and the other ghosts spend their time starting fires and trying to burn the house down. According to the book Hollywood and the Supernatural, an exorcist was even hired to clear the home of malevolent spirits, and she referred to Crawford's home as a "place of conspicuous negativity," calling it an "Astral Central."
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The Superman star now flies around in a more phantasmic sense, haunting his former home where he died from an alleged suicide at the age of 45.
Visitors to the home claim to have heard strange noises coming from Reeves's old bedroom, and a film crew shooting at the house once saw him appear in full Superman regalia.
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Welles completely changed the face of cinema and has haunted film students for decades through Citizen Kane Film Studies screenings (though in a far less ghostly sense). But since he died of a heart attack at the age of 70 on October 11, 1985, he now reportedly also haunts some of his favorite dining spots too - specifically, a hot spot that used to be the Ma Maison restaurant, which has since been turned into Sweet Lady Jane Bakery.
Customers have reported sightings of Welles at his favorite corner table, noting that he only appears for a few seconds wearing all black and a wide-brimmed hat.
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Marilyn Monroe isn't the only celebrity ghost haunting the Roosevelt Hotel - she's in good company, as Montgomery Clift likes to spend his ghostly time there as well. Clift, a four-time Oscar nominee, died at the age of 45 and became a posthumous queer icon as he was revealed to be bisexual by Elizabeth Taylor at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2000.
Clift now haunts the Roosevelt Hotel, specifically room 928, where he has been known to pat guests on the shoulder and give people the feeling of being watched.
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Now for a change of pace - Abraham Lincoln may not be a movie star or a music icon, but he loves a good haunting as much as the next celebrity ghost. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC, but some White House staff have reported the occasional appearance of the former president wandering the building.
Former First Lady Grace Coolidge claimed to have seen him in the Oval Office by the window, and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is also purported to have seen Abe while staying in the Lincoln Bedroom. Churchill emerged from the bathtub when he spotted the president's ghost.
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